Gloria Henry, Actor Who Became an Iconic TV Mom on Dennis the Menace, Dies at 98
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Actor Gloria Henry, who advanced from B movies in the 1940s to an iconicTV mom on the CBS sitcom “Dennis the Menace,” died Saturday, one day after her 98th birthday.
Henry’s death was revealed Sunday in an Instagram post from her daughter, Erin Ellwood an interior designer and longtime production designer. “She was such an incredible woman in so many ways,” Ellwood wrote.
Henry played Alice Mitchell, the endlessly patient, shirtwaist dress-wearing mother of the mischievous title character created as a newspaper cartoon by Hank Ketcham. The TV series adaptation ran from 1959 to 1963 with Jay North in the title role. Henry’s co-star Herbert Anderson also became an iconic TV dad with his horn rim glasses, sharp-angled suits and V-neck sweaters.
Nancy Wilson Drops Tender Ode to Her Mother, You and Me
Song is the title track to Wilson s debut solo album, out this spring
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Nancy Wilson reaches out to her late mother in “You and Me,” the title track to her upcoming solo debut out May 7th.
Co-written with longtime Heart collaborator and friend Sue Ennis, the tune opens with subtle acoustic guitar. Vintage footage of Wilson and her late mother flash across the screen alongside the heartfelt lyrics: “You and me/Mama welcome back I feel you here/Gravity/Always pulls us back together for all time.”
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Imbolo Mbue, the author of the new book ?’How Beautiful We Were,?“ near her home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2021. The book is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her previous book, ?’Behold the Dreamers.?“ (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)Lauren Lancaster /NYTShow MoreShow Less
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Book World: Patricia Engel s Infinite Country focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart
Jake Cline, The Washington Post
March 3, 2021
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Patricia Engel s novels don t begin so much as they crack open. Consider the first line of the Miami writer s 2010 debut, Vida : It was the year my uncle got arrested for killing his wife, and our family was the subject of all the town gossip. The start of 2016 s The Veins of the Ocean presents a man, maddened by his wife s infidelity, who takes their toddler son to a bridge, lifts the boy as high in the sky as he d go and throws him into Biscayne Bay. The child survives. The father is dead by the third page.
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